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stroke : clinical education

Clinical Education for Stroke

Stroke is the leading cause of death after cancers and heart disease. For example, 150,000 strokes and 20,000 transient ischaemic attacks (TIA or “mini strokes”) occur in the UK every year costing the NHS over £2.8billion. The new stroke strategy, launched on 5 December 2007, urges to develop stroke services, which can image and treat high-risk patients with TIA within 24 hours. Prompt diagnosis and treatment could potentially reverse the effects of stroke, thus reducing mortality and morbidity rates.

Because it is ubiquitous, accessible and fast, CT has been the mainstay of stroke imaging. However, there is a group of patients for which the CT scan is normal, and whose management may be changed by a prompt MR examination, when it is not contra-indicated.

With such requirements, it is easy to understand how stroke is in the middle of multiple challenges: not only a high level of availability and reliability of the systems is required, but clinical expertise will play a major role to take full advantage of the systems to use, and dedicated disease-oriented trainings are essential. Time is critical, so is expertise.

With this in mind, GE Healthcare has developed an original approach, combining multiple training formats, and taking advantage of its presence in various fields of imaging techniques, to take our customers to another level of expertise. Offering an exceptionnal combination of on-line trainings with interactive sessions, this approach combines the most recent training methods with live exchange with the leading experts in the field. Followed by GE Healthcare’s exceptionnal knowledge-sharing method (TVA), this will enable tailored protocols to be checked on your very own systems.